Hey, i bulldoze my garden, just to drive the wife nuts . Anyway, my only other point is, unless money is very tight, you really can never have to much space, and a 40 gig drive cost only a few dollars more than a 10. Then you also get into, what does the mobo support, can it be flashed, etc. etc., as you stated. I haven't seen a "new" 10 gig drive for sale for awhile, and the 20's are like 5 dollars less than the 40's. (Haven't really looked much, to be honest, but anyway). So i say save the money now, and get a complete upgrade soon.

Also running a DVD writer on those specs has to be very slow and a little iffy, anyway. I think the minimum specs for a pioneer 105 are like 700 mhz and 256 RAM, something like that, anyway. (mostly for the software)

My 2 cents only, yes it can be done, but is it worth it in the long run? Your PC, your choice.

While it may seem more financially prudent to purchase very large drives it is often a mistake when the buyer realizes that their system can't recognize the drive. Sometimes you can find a BIOS update and sometimes you can't and sometimes what you thought was the flash to end all flashes really is and the systems ends up dead.